The Socials

Here we are now, some of us, with three new social media accounts since the debacle over at Twitter exploded. Each has its strengths and weaknesses and some are greater or lesser depending on what you want out of it, right?

Find me as @ajasont on these platforms, if you like.

Mastodon is interesting but it doesn’t engage me the way Facebook or Twitter did. Its interface is not friendly to me though I can’t pinpoint exactly why. I see there are things happening there and maybe they’re interesting, but I’m not 100% there enough to find any of them. Hive, on the other hand, massively struggled to keep up with the influx of new users and still hasn’t quite shaken out many of the bugs. It’s infernally slow loading and the servers (I think) are still being taken offline at times. POST on the other hand, is a rich environment to write in, though their sensible approach to adding users makes it a bit lonely over there.

For my money, I want to like Hive the most, but its ups and downs are making that difficult. POST, then, becomes the default but I’m not sure I want to be there all the time. Maybe it’s because I am so comfortable in other social media arenas, or maybe it’s my age, or maybe it’s that I’m kind of burned out on social media. I think that’s why Mastodon doesn’t appeal to me; it’s a lot of work to find things there. Or it was. It’s been several weeks since I tried anything there.

So if you’re out and about on the socials, you can find me pretty easily. Maybe it’s about finding my people, or maybe I’m thinking that the time I spend on social media would be better spent writing. I’m lousy at self-promoting, anyway. Hit me up if you’re in those spheres, though. It’d be nice to talk occasionally. Or you can leave a comment here.

See you when I see you.